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Wondering how to manufacture a California trip to see this!

‘Biggest band that ever lived’: inside the Grateful Dead art show As the band celebrate their 60th anniversary, a California exhibition draws attention to the unique psychedelic artwork that has long told their story

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/dec/04/grateful-dead-band-art-show-california?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

@bourgwick.bsky.social remember seeing a school performance of Rosencrantz & Guildenstern when I was about 12 and being completely blown away by it. Not understanding half of it!

‘I almost always play it in hiding, alone’: can anyone get into free jazz, history’s most maligned music? Even though he’s partial to hideous noise, free jazz is mostly unknown to the Guardian’s pop critic. A new guidebook from Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore may change his mind

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/nov/28/free-jazz-history-most-maligned-music?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

https://www.monash.edu/medicine/news/latest/2025-articles/music-can-stave-off-dementia-by-up-to-40-per-cent,-monash-study-finds well tgat makes me feel a bit better…will have to share woth my wife!

@bourgwick can’t imagine either of these will ever get a UK release!

Just reminds me of everything I love about ‘71 Dead, tge cryptical>drums>otger one>cryptical certainly made my commute way more entertaining than usual. https://livemusicarchive.app/music/artists/GratefulDead/recordings/gd1971-11-12.sbd-set2.miller.14916.sbeok.shnf

Donna Jean Godchaux supplied steel and soul to the Grateful Dead in their prime Godchaux sang on classics by Elvis and Otis Redding and had a long solo career, but it’s as a member of the Dead’s classic, acid-drenched 70s lineup – and as the band’s only female member – that she will be remembered

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/nov/04/donna-jean-godchaux-grateful-dead-tribute?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

NASA Artemis snoopy t-shirt

Really the only t-shirt I could by in Houston.

Bill McCormick webpage re new Quiet Sun album

Interesing news from Bill McCormick’s webpage, but no detail yet.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DO_vaIpETbG/?igsh=MW04b2g4dWlwNWJzYg==

@bourgwick @vinylrecords already succumbed to Fairport season in London.

@bourgwick takes me back, particularly the small ads, a whole new language for a fledgeling Deadhead to try to figure through.

Journal of Perpetual Motion: Part 1 On trains, on tour, on being

https://open.substack.com/pub/robynhitchcock/p/journal-of-perpetual-motion-part?r=jirdm&utm_medium=ios

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQFkPaREiJj/?igsh=NWthaGtjNjhzaHNu

What is going on with Dead Net? It seems like the Dave’s Picks 2026 esrly bird subs have sold out in a couple of hours? I got notified at 3.30pm and nothing was in the website, looked again about half an hour ago and it says sold out! Glitch or ebay?

I Wanna Destroy You I don’t really write political songs.

https://open.substack.com/pub/robynhitchcock/p/i-wanna-destroy-you?r=jirdm&utm_medium=ios

Blues For Allah 50: The Music Never Stopped Podcast Episode · GOOD OL' GRATEFUL DEADCAST · 09/10/2025 · 1h 45m

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/good-ol-grateful-deadcast/id1522914723?i=1000730950760 Another superlative episode. So lovely to hear Steve S again. Thank you.

The Captain, the Beatles and Me This time of year flashes me back to my two favourite albums of 1969, as that decade of acceleration smashed to its climax.

https://open.substack.com/pub/robynhitchcock/p/the-captain-the-beatles-and-me?r=jirdm&utm_medium=ios

Happy birthday, John Lennon I love John Lennon.

https://open.substack.com/pub/robynhitchcock/p/happy-birthday-john-lennon?r=jirdm&utm_medium=ios

Hunter S Thompson’s death to be reviewed more than 20 years later The journalist and author’s wife requested ‘fresh look’ from Colorado FBI, after his death was ruled a suicide in 2005

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/oct/01/hunter-s-thompsons-death-reviewed?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

@livetapes back in 1987 the BBC broadcast the whole thing over a weekend, as far as i remember full sets for everything. I recorded the whole thing on tape but in the intervening years they’ve all gone astray. So I guess that means the recordings are all out there somewhere, though never been […]

Happy birthday, Highway 61! Here’s a record that could only happen once.

https://open.substack.com/pub/robynhitchcock/p/happy-birthday-highway-61?r=jirdm&utm_medium=ios

No Deadcast traier in the Uk

Imax anticipation…

Bookshelf now very full…but why are people always asking John Mayer to contribute?

‘He wrote five songs about washing dishes!’ The lost Woody Guthrie gems rescued by AI He sang about love, injustice, Einstein – and his landlord Fred Trump, father of Donald, ending up in hell. As a trove of Guthrie tracks resurfaces, his daughter Nora remembers the penner of ‘hard-hitting songs for hard-hit people’

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jul/29/lost-woody-guthrie-songs-ai-fred-trump-donald-einstein?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other